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Volume Control. In The Hague, when an upstairs tenant refused to turn down his radio, a downstairs tenant chopped a hole through the ceiling, reached through and tried to club the man above with a stilt...
...When a comedian gets so big that his network can no longer handle him. then we have a case of the tail wagging the dog. The boy who used to express himself with chalk on a wall is now provided with a television screen . . . This type of comedian is stilt peddling livery stable humor...
...Ashanti fertility fetish, carried on the backs of pregnant women to help make their children beautiful, has the simplicity of a lollipop but the elegance of a Donatello; the yellow & black Ibibio carving, used in secret female dances, sits its crescent moon with awesome assurance; and the Mpongwe stilt-dance "Mask of the Dead" is ennobled, not coarsened, by its cruel tattoos...
Last week the election was still going on. But the Russians were no longer in northern Persia. The Russian-sponsored Tudeh Party had collapsed throughout Persia. Americans were now the vogue. Persians bought $1 million-a-year worth of shabby American secondhand suits. Persian women clamored for stilt-soled shoes and Hollywood hairdos. Sidewalk hawkers shouted "American nylons!" Fishmongers even cried "American fish...
Sandbars & Sioux. The typical upper-river sternwheeler, displacing perhaps 300 tons, drew a mere 20-to-30 inches of water, burned some 25 cords of hard wood a day. In emergencies, it could lift itself over shallows by means of special stilt-like spars poised on its bow. In the '70s, military as well as civilian passengers were carried, for there was increasing Indian trouble, much of it traceable to Chief Crazy Horse and his Ogalalla Sioux...